The dog didn't seem to be at home. The thatched house was quiet and there was no sound at all.
Yan Yueming took out her phone and set the screen saver to the cute dog pictures in the photo album, hoping to be blessed by the dog god. Unexpectedly, there was exactly 48% of the phone's battery remaining. This unlucky number made his heart tremble, and he quickly put the phone back into his pocket.
Looking up, I saw that the thatched house was not big, and it smelled of disrepair everywhere. The haystacks in the yard have collapsed and weeds are growing in the vegetable patch, but the house is still clean. However, this cleanliness is only partially clean. For example, places such as the stove, dining table, bed, etc. are clean, but there is still a lot of dust accumulated in other corners.
Could it be that a lazy man lives here? Because they are lazy, they are poor and cannot afford to build brick houses, so they can only live in thatched huts.
What makes Yan Yueming most curious is that there seem to be no rules in this thatched house, which is simple and safe. It's safer than House No. 9 in a quiet neighborhood.
There is a bamboo chair in the main room. Next to the bamboo chair is a small square table. On the square table are teacups made of bamboo tubes. This scene is like the owner of the house once sitting here looking at the small courtyard and having a rest for half a day.
Yan Yueming knelt down and took a closer look at the bamboo chair and table. Both of them had been repaired after they were broken. It was just that the repairman's skills were average and he just reinforced them randomly with wooden boards.
Then he went to the kitchen to take a look. There was no food in the kitchen, and the pot was broken, but there was a small stove next to it that was still usable. There was a clean small pot on the stove, and the pot showed signs of use.
There are only two bowls of the same color in the house. One is placed on the stove, and the other is a sea bowl placed under the eaves. It is obviously the dog's rice bowl.
Yan Yueming looked left and right, and said "I'm sorry" silently in his heart. He picked up the rice bowl and turned it over to the bottom of the bowl. He looked at it and was slightly surprised, "Isn't this the bowl from Wang Fuhu's family? There is also a mark on it." Woolen cloth."
Li Heping: "I stole it."
Yan Yueming: "Teacher, do you think it's a little strange here?"
"Indeed." Li Heping touched his double chin, "Last time I came here, the dog happened to be at home, so I didn't come in. Now I see, there is something wrong with this house."
Li Zheng went to the back of the house and happened to come back when he saw them, one big and one small, squatting under the eaves, so he stopped and took a look. Yan Yueming raised his head and looked at him, saying, "I think this thatched house seems to have been abandoned."
"Where's the evidence?" Li Zheng asked.
"There are very few dishes and chopsticks at home, and they were stolen. The house is in disrepair, and while most of the villages are brick houses, it is still a thatched house, which looks very old. The most important thing is that those who have cleaned it The place is very clean, and it seems that the person who cleans it is not very lazy. He can also repair furniture and make cups, although his skills are not very good."
Yan Yueming pointed her fingers at him and pointed out doubts one by one, "So I suspect that someone lived in this abandoned thatched house, and then tidied up the place a little, stole bowls, and made new cups. , repaired the tables and chairs, and used the small stove to cook."
Li Zheng had a good time, "Then, who do you think this person is?"
Yan Yueming figured out the taste. The senior's reaction showed that his guess was reasonable, "It's a wanderer! Maybe it's the person who left the message!"
Li Zheng did not directly answer whether he was correct or not, but said: "Follow me."
He turned around and walked back. Yan Yueming quickly followed, and the two of them went around to the back of the house. There is a bamboo forest behind the house, and there is a toilet in the bamboo forest. The toilet was also in disrepair, but it still smelled.
"Look at the ground." Li Zheng said. Yan Yueming looked over as told and saw someone writing a line of simplified Chinese characters in front of the squatting pit, about an arm's length away.
[Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no paper! 】
Yan Yueming's eyes brightened slightly, "I guessed it right!"
This line of writing seemed to be scrawled on the ground with branches, but the handwriting and tone were very similar to the message in Wang's house. The wanderer came to the gap, visited the king's house, and explored the village. Finally, he chose to live in this thatched house, perhaps because it was empty and relatively safe. Those traces of life are naturally left by this person.
But looking at this handwriting, Yan Yueming felt more and more... as if he had seen it somewhere? He couldn't remember it for a moment, but this feeling lingered in his heart and couldn't go away.
Just then, a familiar voice came from above, "Be careful, the dog is back."
An alarm suddenly sounded in Yan Yueming's heart, so he picked up Li Zheng and ran away. But he was running in the wrong direction, and he met the opponent in a narrow road. He had an idea and quickly took out the ham sausage from the side pocket of his backpack and threw it out——
Look at my food attack!
The dog was stunned for a moment, watching the ham sausage draw a graceful arc in front of his eyes, with a hint of disgust on his face, and then suddenly exerted force, like a vigorous cheetah, leaping up to grab the ham sausage.
Yan Yueming was even more confused and tugged on Li Zheng's sleeve, "Senior, did it dislike me just now?"
Li Zheng: "I only know that if you don't run away, it will be too late."
Yan Yueming reacted and continued running away. After running a certain distance and finding that the dog was not chasing him, he stopped to take a breath.
Li Zheng and Li Heping also came over, each looking more relaxed than the other, which made Xiao Ming envious. The next second, what Li Heping said made Xiao Ming feel cold again.
"Xiao Ming, take a rest and go over to meet the dog for a while."
Yan Yueming: "Huh?"
Li Heping was analyzing it seriously, not joking, "Don't you think this dog is actually very humane? It chased me several times last time, and this time it chased Xiao Ming twice, but it never hurt him once. Us. This is not because we run fast. I have observed it carefully and it may not have any subjective intention to harm people."
When he was being chased, Li Heping didn't have much time to observe, but this time it was different. He had been on the roof and had the best view of both pursuits.
Yan Yueming was slightly surprised, "Then what does it want to do?"
Li Zheng: "Drive us away."
Li Heping grinned again, "Do you still remember what I said about the exit?"
Yan Yueming: "Dog...dog hole?!"
So the dog is helping them?
Yan Yueming suddenly thought of a word, "Stray dog? I don't mean that stray dog, I mean that stray dog!"
He was at a loss for words, but fortunately Li Zheng understood what he meant and said: "It fell in from the real world like a human? It is indeed possible. Then what do you think is the relationship between this stray dog and the wanderer? "
Yan Yueming thought for a moment and gave a very pertinent answer: "They know each other."
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nbsp; "Pfft." Li Heping couldn't help laughing, but Yan Yueming felt that there was no problem with this answer! There were two bowls in the thatched hut. The patterns on the two bowls were the same, so they were obviously stolen together. One is for humans and the other is for dogs. It’s just a friendship of stealing bowls and eating together. They must know each other.
Without further ado, Yan Yueming decided to obey his teacher's orders and muster the courage to meet the dog again.
He walked back three times, walked a few steps and then ran back, asking Li Zheng in a low voice: "Senior, will you save me later? If you need to take the rabies vaccine, it cannot exceed 24 hours."
Li Heping felt that this young apprentice still didn't believe him, but just as he was about to speak, the older apprentice's eye knife came again. Li Zheng glanced at him, then looked at Yan Yueming, "Go, I'll save you."
Yan Yueming finally felt relieved and turned to leave. He moved from behind this obstacle to that obstacle, moving in a diagonal direction, gradually approaching the thatched house.
The dog was squatting at the door. In fact, it saw him. It swung its tail back and forth, not seeming to be paying attention, and then when Yan Yueming came within ten meters, it suddenly jumped out again, "Woof woof woof woof!"
Yan Yueming was so frightened that he took a few steps back, then stopped abruptly. With a pale face, he took out the ham sausage from his backpack and said, "You, do you want to eat it?"
The dog took a few steps forward.
Yan Yueming took another half step back.
Dog: "Woof woof woof!"
Yan Yueming: "...Are you scolding me?"
Li Heping: "How did he talk to the dog?"
Li Zheng: "Did you teach me?"
Li Heping: "Tsk."
Li Zheng smiled.
Yan Yueming really felt that the dog was scolding him, and it looked at him with a bit of disgust. But why, he likes dogs so much and has always believed that dogs are good friends who accompany humans. At most, he only gives equal love to kittens. Why scold him?
The dog tilted its head: "Woof?"
Yan Yueming looked at this sturdy big dog with yellow hair and black back. He also wanted to keep one when he was a child, but unfortunately it was too troublesome to get a dog license in Shangfangcheng. Forget it, he is a human, he will not argue with a dog.
Thinking like this, Yan Yueming endured the grievance, took out a few pieces of beef jerky from his backpack, put it on the ground, pushed it over, "I'll give it all to you, can we make friends?"
The dog was obviously hesitating, its round and bright eyes were staring at Yan Yueming, its panting mouth had sharp fangs, and it looked like it could bite off Yan Yueming's arm in one bite.
But the teacher was right. The little animal's instinct did not come online, which proved that the dog did not have any ill intentions towards him.
Yan Yueming became more courageous and tried to look at the dog with kind and loving eyes. Finally, the dog seemed to be moved by him. He walked over slowly, picked up the beef cubes on the ground and ate it.
The experiment was successful, this dog is really not from the hostile faction. Yan Yueming couldn't help but be delighted, and at this moment, Li Heping also came over, wanting to have a friendly exchange with the dog out of curiosity and inquiry. Who knew -
"Woof woof woof!" As soon as the dog noticed Li Heping approaching, he immediately barked and rushed out. His posture was vigorous, like a heavenly dog descending from the earth, and he drove Li Heping out of the ground for a mile.
Within a moment, the man and the dog disappeared.
Yan Yueming opened her mouth wide, "Will the teacher be okay?"
Li Zheng calmly said, "I can't die."
The two returned to the thatched house again. Li Zheng entered the house and took a quick look, saying, "Rest here tonight."
"Rest?" Yan Yueming glanced at the time and realized that it was already very late. Although it was daytime in the gap, according to the time in the real world, it was already night. After working all day, it was time to go to bed. Thinking of this, I suddenly felt sleepy.
"But that dog..."
"There is me."
Yan Yueming touched her nose. He promised not to hold him back, so taking a good rest and replenishing his energy was also an effort to not hold him back. Thinking of this, he went to make the bed honestly, took out the only quilt and patted it in the sun. This quilt also looks like it was stolen from another house. It is new but not old. It is clean and has no peculiar smell.
After making the bed, he told Li Zheng again and went to the river to fetch water alone.
Today, Xiao Ming will start to take charge of his own business.
Yan Yueming cheered herself up while working hard. When he came back from fetching water successfully, he went to use the stove in the kitchen to boil hot water and make fruit, vegetable, oatmeal milk powder to drink. This milk powder was sent to him by his aunt a few days ago. It is delicious, nutritious, and will not make him fat.
Wait, aunt? !
Yan Yueming finally remembered whose handwriting the dog crawling looked like. It looked like an aunt!
Three messages were left, one with a brush, one with charcoal, and one probably with a branch on the ground. Because they were not pens, and the writing postures were different, the handwriting was actually subtly different from that of a person sitting upright. It is definitely different if it is written with a pen in front of the table.
Yan Yueming didn't feel deeply about it the first two times, but after watching it three times in a row, he inevitably felt a sense of déjà vu. Thinking of my aunt at this moment, I suddenly realized why the word "dog crawling" looks so much like what she wrote!
Yan Yueming was so shocked that she forgot to maintain social distance and suddenly grabbed Li Zheng's arm, "Senior, senior, senior, listen to me..."
He was so excited that he even started to stutter.
Finally, he raised an objection himself, "But my aunt obviously entered the gap in the city above. Although they are both toilets, they are definitely not the same toilet as ours. And she was finally rescued by people from the search and rescue department, but the teacher She's from the Search and Rescue Department. He said he had never been to this gap? So it shouldn't be her, right?"
When Li Zheng heard the word "aunt" for the first time, he was slightly surprised and surprised. He narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he thought of something. When Yan Yueming finished speaking, he asked again: "Why can't it be? It was the teacher who rescued her back then, and I was also there."
Yan Yueming: "..."
Li Zheng: "The reason why your aunt has undergone such a big change, and even the most basic setting of gender has been reversed, is because not only did she go to the wrong toilet, she also got on the wrong boat."
Yan Yueming's mouth opened slightly.
Li Zheng: "The existence of that ship is roughly equivalent to that of the Hooligan. It also comes from the depths of the gap, and it is called the Yihong Ship. The ship travels thousands of miles, and this ship must have taken her through more than one gap."
Yan Yueming's mouth grew bigger and bigger, but she couldn't speak.
Li Zheng suddenly smiled and said, "Your aunt still refuses to go back to Shangfang City, probably because you entered Huayuan Road."
